You’re welcome! I’m glad it was helpful. c:

Well my personal path is based on my culture’s Pre-Hispanic animistic beliefs that are still for the most part still alive in the various tribes remaining that haven’t been influenced from Spain, past Islamic traders, or the U.S. over the years. I am more of a reconstructionist and my beliefs stem from my culture’s beliefs rather than Wiccan or other Western beliefs. The only thing in Neo-Paganism I really follow is the Wheel of the Year, changed of course to fit my culture and beliefs, and that’s pretty much it. Everything else like tarot and astrology are New Age not really so much on Neo-Paganism even though its pretty much in the culture, but those I incorporate into my path but it doesn’t make up my spirituality.

If I had to pick one book that has been published that has to do with my personal path it would either be Way of the Ancient Healer: Sacred Teachings from the Philippine Ancestral Traditions by Virgil Mayor (which I have), or Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous by Leny Mendoza Stobel (which I’m dying to get). Between the two I have no clue which one because one goes into the traditional healing arts of the Philippines, symbols, etc. and the other goes into the decolonization of the Filipino mind back into our indigenous, tribal, Pre-Hispanic, and ancestral minds, and following the Babaylan path, which is our shamanic, Priestess/Priest tradition. There is another book which isn’t really focused on spirituality as much but is still a very important book for my culture is Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott which goes into our Pre-Hispanic past which sadly majority of Filipino’s have forgotten and don’t know about do to heavy colonization from first the Spaniards then the United States. It’s pretty much a touchy subject for me. What book I would pick I have no clue since they all are focused on 3 different aspects of my path, healing, spiritual, and cultural. If they managed to combine all 3 then that would pretty much sum up my path.

However for Neo-Pagan books, which I’m guessing you are are probably looking for, it would be Garden Witchery: Magick from the Ground Up by Ellen Dugan. Any of her books actually, but this one is my favorite out of all of them because I work with herbs and this book touches on that.

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